Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona and Tate Gallery, London. Calder’s work is represented in the collections of numerous distinguished institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Guggenheim Museum, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York the National Gallery, Washington, D.
Includes a double-paged excerpt from the issue with rotogravures of the artist’s sculptural work to the verso.Īlexander Calder was an innovator in Modern art by creating a method of sculpting and wire bending to create “drawings in space.” Calder was an artist who resonated with the Futurists and Constructivists, as well as building blocks of early non-objective painting. Alexander Calder was an innovator in Modern art by creating a method of sculpting and. Includes a certificate of authenticity to the verso. Today his works can be found in numerous museum collections around the world including The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.Includes a certificate of authenticity to the verso Alexander Calder (American, 1898 1976) Untitled, 1975. Derriere le Miroir Cover - Vintage Lithograph by Alexander Calder - 1968, 1968 Alexander Calder Derriere le Miroir: Stabiles, 1963 (after) Alexander Calder 1960's Alexander Calder lithographic cover (from Derrire le miroir), c.1963 (after) Alexander Calder 1970's Alexander Calder lithographic cober (from Derrire le miroir), c. His kinetic works, a departure from traditional sculpture, became known as ‘mobiles’, a term coined by Marcel Duchamp.Ĭalder’s artistic endeavors ranged from mobiles to stabiles (static sculptures) both small and large, to jewelry and paintings. Calder relocated to Paris, socializing with the Parisian avant-garde, and started making mechanical toys and abstract sculptures. By 1925 Calder had his first art exhibition and in 1926 he made his first sculptures out of wood and wire. With lithographs by artists including Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, and Joan Mir, each issue of Derriere Le Miroir was non-editioned and unsignedcreating unprecedented accessibility to works by these artists.
In the spring of 1922 Calder attended night classes in drawing and the following year he decides to pursue a career as a painter. After completing school, Calder work a myriad of jobs including draftsman for Edison Company, a staff member at Lumber magazine, coloring maps for a hydraulics engineer and timekeeper for a logging camp. In 1915, Calder attended Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey graduating in 1919 with a degree in mechanical engineering because his parents didn’t want him to struggle as an artist. As a child he made gifts for his family and jewelry for his sister’s dolls. From Derriere Le Miroir 221 Cover Sheet by Alexander Calder For Sale at William Chambers Art listed on Printed Editions. Born in 1898 to Nanette Lederer Calder and Alexander Stirling Calder, a painter and a sculptor respectively, Alexander Calder was encouraged to be creative and make things by hand.
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